Stylish Design takes up a minimum of space on the nightstand, desk or dresser. Visible 0.9" Green LED allows the large size numerals to be seen easily, even at night.

User Reviews about Sony ICF-C318 Automatic Time Set Clock Radio with Dual Alarm (Black)

This is all you need and it will go as loud as you want it to. The dual alarms have saved me quite a few times as I like to hit the snooze button and end up hitting the wrong button. -- Great alarm clock

And it does that. It's functional and space-saving. And it's Sony, so the quality is there. I do wish it had the ability to set the alarm for certain days of the week like my old Timex. Although that's not something one needs to take advantage of often, unless you work retail or something. Hated those odd hours. I recently started hearing some static through the speakers. The alarms were off and so was the radio. I have no clue what interfered with it, but I'll play around with some ideas and see what happens. It wakes me up, so it's doing what I need it to so. -- Only One Job.. Wake Me Up

Really love this design and dual alarm design.

Anyway, its awesome!!!

The only disadvantage is that its lack of battery support. Only coming with 110V input. -- Cool!!!

I stumbled across this clock when browsing Amazon looking for a reasonably-priced clock that would let me adjust forward or backward when setting the alarm. I put this clock on my "wish list" and my kids got it for me for Father's Day. It seems that my wife and I are always tweeking our wake-up time from morning to morning, based on slight schedule variations, so that we wake up absolutely as late as we possibly can. On the alarm clock I had before this one, the alarm time could only be adjusted forward, so it was a pain to back the alarm time up by 10 minutes (you had to go forward 50 minutes instead). So, one of my favorite things about this clock is the fact that the alarm time (as well as the time of day) can be adjusted both forward and backward.

Here is a summary of key things things I like about the clock:
1) Alarm setting can be adjusted forward and backward (I know, I've beat this one to death).
2) Using the CR2032 backup battery for power, the clock will sound the alarm at the correct time even if AC power is out.
3) Dual alarm.
4) Clock automatically adjusts for Daylight Saving Time.
5) Alarm can be snoozed for 10 to 60 minutes in 10 minute increments by repeatedly pressing the snooze button.
6) The alarm doesn't sound obnoxiously right away. It starts out fairly soft, so that if you don't need something loud and obnoxious to wake you, you can turn it off before it gets that way.

There are other features that might be important to others, but those above are the ones that I really appreciate.

Here are some noteworthy quirks/watchouts:
1) The clock is touted as having "Automatic Time Set," which might make you think that it picks up the NIST radio signal to set itself. Well, it doesn't do that. All the "Automatic Time Set" feature means is that the time is set at the factory and kept reasonably accurately by the backup battery so that when you first plug it in, all you have to do is select your time zone.
2) There is an imperceptibly small difference in alarm volume between the low and high settings.
3) The radio sound quality is not so great, but I don't use the radio anyway.
4) I don't know how often this happens, but my clock came out of the box indicating "low battery." The first thing I had to do was to replace the CR2032 coin cell battery.
-- I really LIKE this clock!

I read a lot of reviews before choosing a new alarm clock and this was rated very high. Now that I have the alarm clock, I would agree with what most people have said about the clock. It is easy-to-use, a nice size, and I like that the numbers are a larger size. -- The reviews are true.